Biography Briefs

• Author: Gemma Tang Nain
• Pages: 233-236

Biography Briefs 233

BIOGRAPHY BRIEFS

Andaiye is a political activist, organising nationally with Red Thread a

women’s group that brings low-income Guyanese women together across

race divides – and internationally with the Global Women’s Strike, which

organises in more than 70 countries. Between 1987 and 1993, she was

employed mainly by the Women and Development Unit of the University

of the West Indies (WAND), where she edited and co-edited theoretical

papers. From late 1993, her main attachments were with the Caribbean

Community Secretariat (CARICOM), where she was first a resource person

for the Caribbean preparatory process for Beijing, and briefly, Special Adviser

to the CARICOM Secretary-General on Women and Gender; in this

capacity, she prepared the CARICOM Regional Post-Beijing Plan of Action.

She also contributed to the Beijing preparatory process as one of the

drafters of NGO documents at the regional and international level and

through presentations to NGO fora; her main area of focus is women’s

unwaged work. She has written and/or edited several papers on gender in

the Caribbean, including an analysis of the cost of structural adjustment

to Caribbean women, and a weekly newspaper column on and for women.

In 1996 she received a Guyana National Award for her work with women

in Guyana.

Professor Barbara Bailey has been regional coordinator of the Centre for

Gender and Development Studies, UWI since 1995. Prior to that she was

the specialist lecturer in Curriculum Studies in the School of Education,

Mona. In recent years Professor Bailey’s teaching and research focus has

been on ‘Gender and Education Studies’, with particular emphasis on